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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

Overview of this book

IBM Cognos is Business Intelligence software that enables businesses to fully utilize their maximum potential. It connects people with information from virtually any data source whenever and wherever they need it so that they can make better decisions, faster.Take the practical, hands-on approach to managing your reporting environment with "IBM Cognos Business Intelligence" - packed with coverage of all the latest features to truly help you maximize your potential.With this in-depth practical guide you will learn how to fully utilize IBM Cognos 10 so that your business can make smarter decisions, achieve better results and gain a deeper understanding of your company's data. You will learn about critical topics like Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Security and Administration as well as in-depth coverage of other features like Business Insight, Business Insight Advanced, and Active Reports, which were introduced with IBM Cognos 10.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Documenting content, security, and models


Documentation is valuable in any environment, but there are environments where it is mandatory. Typically, in highly regulated industries such as healthcare or financial industries, there are regulations that require a frequent documentation of mechanisms that are in place for delivering data. MetaManager incorporates documentation around content, security, and models.

Content Documentation

Content documentation is the documentation of anything that lives within your content store. This can be packages, folder structures, reports, security, or datasource connections. It is often critical that this information is captured. MetaManager makes documenting each of these objects very simple using the Content Store Documenter module.

Within Content Store Documenter, we can drag objects from our content store and drop them in the section that says Drag objects from the portal tree to this area. For this example, we can drag in the GO Sales and Retailers package...